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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-02

ACAOA INV W t1dt kluU Ol u DOOK which
the villain has under his coat waiting for
the school to get out, and then, looking
both ways to see that there is no police
man around the block, offers the book to
your son on his way home. do not speak
of that kind of literature, but that which
evades the law and comes out in polished
style and with acute plot sounds the tocsin
that rouses up all the baser passions Of the
SOUL To-day, under the nostrils of this
land, there Is q fetid, reeking, unwashed
literature, enough to poison eli the fount-
aims OF public virtue, and smite your sons
and daughters as with the wing Of a de-
stroying angel, and it is time that the
ministers of the Gospel blew the trumpet
and rallied the forces Of righteousness,
all armed to the teeth, in tins great battle
against depraved literature.
Again, abstain from those books which
are apologetic Of crime. It is a sad thing
that some Of the best and most beautiful
book-blnderies, and some Of the finest
rhetoric, have been brought to make sin
attractive Vice is horrible thing, any,
how. It is born in shame, and dies howl
ing in the darkness. In this world il is
scourged with whip OF scorpions, but
afterward the thunders of Gods wrath
pursue 1t across q boundless desert, beat
ing 1t with rum and woe When you come
70 paint carnality, do not paint it as look
Ing from behind embroidered curtains,
through lattice Of royal seragilo, but as
writing IN the agonies Of city hospital.
Cursed be the books that try to make
impurity decent and crime attractive,
and hypOcrisy nobel Cursed be the books
that swarm with Hbertines and despera-
does, who make the brain of Tho vonnc
people whirl with vlllainy. Ye authors
who write them, ye publishers who
print them, ye booksellers who dis
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-02

strangest discovery is that of lake,
the largest upon the northern slope Of
the mountains, lying in gap between
two lines of peaks, which, having been
approached from opposite sides. had
previously been considered IDENTICAL
National Eew.
-Rowley Patterson, an amateur as
tronomer of Dansville, N. T.. has
settled question about which there
has been much discussion. He asserts
that on the day of judgement the solar
system will be fused into a glowing,
nebulous mass. The wicked will be
cast into this somewhat torrid environ
ment, and the good will be transferred
to the planet Beulah. On this planet
the New Jerusalem, Is, 900 miles square,
is to be located. This planet, for econ
omical reasons, has not yet been formed,
as it will not be needed until after the
final judgement.-M. o. TSmes-Dem-
ocrat
On July 4, 1883, Herman Meyer, OF
Cincinnati, nineteen years old, was
terribly wounded by the bursting of a
small cannon which he was firing. Six
pieces of metal were blown into his
body, all together weighing over four
ounces. One piece, which passed in
between the fifth and sixth ribs, could
not be found. He fingered between life
and death for over three years. Atlast
he passed from the bowels piece OF
metal weighing three hundred and five
grains, which it was found had passed
entirely through the liver, and finally
into the bowels. -Boston Globe,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

the House to refer it to the committee on
claims. That would have been simply put
ting them in the old mill again to grind on
indefinitely. 1t was finally referred to the
committee on appropriations with instructions
to report provision for the payment of the
claims in the general deficiency bill. This
will bring the matter directly before the
House, where the fate of the measure will be
very uncertain. The whole course of the
government in the matter has been evasion of
an honest debt, and the only reason Congress
can give for not paying it now is that as pay
ment has been successfully evaded seventy
five years it might as well be evaded longer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23
THE FRENCH spOIIATT0N CLAIMS

The action of the House of Representatives
relative to certain spoliaton claims revives
case of long standing, and one whose history
is not creditable to the honor or honesty of this
government: There never was iuster claim
or more sacred debt than the French spolia-
ton claims. They were the claims of certain
American merchants and ship-owners for the
capture, coniscation or detention of Ameri-
can merchantmen by French vessels prior to
the year 1901. Originally the claims lay
against the French government, and their
validity was not denied In settlement with
France in 1910 the United States government
assumed the responsibility for the payment of
claims setting off against them certain claims
of the French against the United States, equally
as valid and which, but for this balancing we
should have had TO pay in cash. By this
arrangement the United States became, in
stead of the French government, a debtor to
the American claimants The latter ex-
pected this claim to be promptly paid, as they
had a right to, but the government was very
poor at that time, and without denying the
the payment. As usual in such cases, the
longer payment was deferred the stronger was
the disposition to defer, until finally there be-
gan to be opposition TO paying at all. As time
passed the original claimants began to die off
and their claims descended to their heirs,
still further complicating the case Some of
the claims were not proved up, and as wit
nesses died it became very difficult to prove
them. Documentary evidence disappeared
and the original justice of the claims was lost
sight of. To make long story short, they
have not been paid yet although they have
been before nearly every session of Congress
for more than fifty years Many of the claims
have passed into the hands of Spectators and
it is far more difficult to sift the good from
the bad now than it would have been three
quarters of century ago, yet the fact
mains that the original claims were just and
that the government has deliberately refused
to pay them after solemnly promising to do
So Between 1926 and 1885 more than forty
favorable reports were made on the claims by
committees of Congress, and not one unfavor-
able report, and at least twenty bills Tor their
payment were passed by one house or the
other, yet the claims remained unpaid.
Finally, about three years ago,
bill was passed referring all the
claims to the Court of Claims, with in
structions to examine the whole subject de
novo, going into treaty stipulations, the law
and the facts, investigating each claim on its
merits, and to report progress to Congress at
the beginning of each session. A report was
ceiyed from the court at the beginning of this
session covering thirty cases, in which judg
ment is rendered in favor of the claimants,
amounting to $438. 900, and five in
which adverse judgment is given. This re-
port of the Court of Claims should have been
accepted as final, but an effort was made in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

LET'S see; isn't California one of the States
in which, according to Eastern Democratic
papers, that party is rapidly increasing in
strength Well, the San Francisco Call, the
leading Democratic organ of the coast,
brushes aside all evasions in regard to Cleve-
lands message, says it declares for absolute
free trade, and then goes on and talks this
way:
ut will not be simply the 3,000 900 people
whom Mr.. Cleveland fancied especially
included in the preservation of the protective
policy, but the IA, 000 900 who are other
wise engaged in industrial pursuits as well.
The average American citizen does not need
to be told that reduction of the wages of
one-fourth of their number will bring about q
reduction for the whole. The factory opera
tive who submits to a reduction of 40 per
cent. in wages will expect his carpenter. his
tailor, his produce dealer and all others with
whom he deals to reduce prices correspond
inglv, and if they do not he will take up some
line of employment in which the standard is
main tanned, and thus, in seeking to help him
self, assist to bring about an equilibrium IL
rates of compensation for labor"
In the light of this protection argument
from this source, it would appear that the
Eastern papers are either not thoroughly well
informed, or have misstated matters. The
growth in the party out there seems to be in
the direction of Republicanism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23
LAMAR AND CHISOLM.
The Former Helped Stir Up Feeling That
Caused the Latter's Murder.

New York Press
The murder OF Judge William Wallace CHS
ohm, in kemper county, Mississippi, in 1877. was
q political outrage that stirred the Nations heart
for months after its occurrence Judge Chlsolm
had lived in that county for thirty one years,
and served in the rebel militia, but after the war
over he accepted its results and became a
Republican He witness before the ku-
klux investigating committee, and repeatedly
times elected sheriff. In 1876 he for Con-
gress against Hon. H ID. Money, and his life
repeatedly in danger during the canvass.
threats to kill him being frequently made Dur
ing the following winter he went TO Washington
and testified before congressional investigating
COMMITTEES.
In April, 1877 John W. Gully. prominent
Democrat of kemper county, was assasslnated
by colored desperate named John Riley.
Judge Chisoln J. p. Gilmer and two other
prominent Republicans were arrested on sus-
picion, though nothing was ever proved against
them aud a Democratic mob shot Gilmer dead
Mrs Chisolm and her two children went home
and brought arms to the jail, but before the
judge could use them his son John was fatally
shot He and his daughter were MORALLY
wounded. and after weeks of suffering died from
their injuries. Only last fall the last OF these
murderers were acquitted were they all
Just before his death Judge Chisolm said TO his
wife that be felt that he was about TO die Tell
my children that their father never did an act
in his life for which they need to blush or feel
ashamed / innocent of the charge these
men have PREFER ed against me, and have been
murdered because / am Republican, and
would live free man.
The .'poor white trash of Kemper county was
not SO much responsible for this massacre -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SENATOR STANFORD gives his private secre-
tary his entire salary and mileage amounting
to about $1,000.
THE Prince of Wales having taken to CORE
spondence by postal card, those useful but here
tofore deemed plebeian articles are at once de-
clared in aristocratic good form.
On Dee. the King of Spain. aged eighteen
months, was taken to the Senate House and
placed on his fathers throne with all the para.
phernalia, amid great enthusiasm.
A KENTUCKY woman has retitioned the Gov
ernor for pension because she has seven sons.
all born on Sunday. She thinks such remark
able feat of maternity should be rewarded
Miss STORY the daughter of clergyman in
the north of Ireland, has the literature
scholarship of flO0 a year for FIVE years,
awarded by the Royal University of Ireland.
THE new French President belongs to fam
lily of Scotch origin. The original name was
Cairn, the French diInnutive of which would be
Cairnot, or little cairn. This was soon corrupted
into Carnot.
Mrs. WEALTHA ANN EMMoNs the wife of Pro-
fessor Emmons of Washington, has become
teacher of elocution. She charges 81. so lesson.
Here is a chance for ambitious Congressman to
become orators
IT is remembered of Jenny Lind that she dis
liked fattery When the sculptor Durham made
a bust of her she was greatly displeased with it.
81 am" she said to him. IAN ugly Swede and
you have made me a beautiful Englishwoman."
THE remains of President Carnots illustrious
grandfather are in the cemetery at Magdeburg,
and an attempt will now be made to have them
brought home to France. He died an exile. pro-
scribed by the restored Bourbons for having
voted for the killing of Louis XVI
A MOST precious reliquary was sent to the
Pope recently from Vienna, as jubilee offer
ing. The silver sarcophagus of st. John of
Nepomuk opened the glass coffin was
placed upon the table and unsealed with great
care. The Archbishop then took several small
bones of the hand, placed them in the reliquary,
after which the glass coffin sealed and
placed in the silver sarcophagus under the altar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

SENATOR SPooNER of Wisconsin, very
able man, by the way, and one with future,
says in published interview concerning the
solid South:
''That question is the greatest of all, in my
opinion. It is the subversion Of republican
government and the triumph of violence and
fraud. They are using the negro citizenship
of the South to increase their power and rep
resentatlon, and are not allowing the negro to
exercise the right of suffrage. Here and
there they may count his vote but as a rule
they do not. We must keep at that question,
and break up this coalition between the solid
South and a few Northern States which allow
them to govern. The pressing of this ques-
ton will awaken the Northern sense of inde-
pendence which refused to be coerced in
the times of Kansas and Nebraska, and has
never yielded to clear invasion of its rights
till now. The coalition is corrupt in violation
of the whole theory of our law and govern
ment, and I believe the Northern character
will not stand it when it is made the conspic-
uous ISSUE"
Substantially these views have been repeat
edly expressed in the Journal, and we are
glad to see them so clearly appreciated and so
well stated by the Wisconsin Senator. No
other question can equal in Importance that
of the solid South, which is but another name
for the notification of the constitutional
amendments and the overthrow of republican
government in several States. The present
supremacy of the Democratic party on that
basis represents a complete sitting of popular
suffrage in the South and the establishment
of form of government that is republican
only in name. This state of things cannot
last, any more than the Union could endure
part free and part slave. The Northern peo-
pie will not permanently submit to be sat
down upon by the Southern Democracy as
they now are by system which makes one
vote in the South equal to ten votes in the
North.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

the politicians who urged them TO violent meth
DDS. Conspicuous in this agitation L. O c..
Lamar. The Nicksbuac Herald thus describes
one of his speeches in the campaign which e.
suited in Judge Chisolm's murder. AT Aber-
deem. last Saturday, Colonel Lamar made an
eloquent speech. A better Democratic speech
we do not listen TO: and in manly and
ringing tones he declared that the contest in
volved the supremacy OF the unconGuered and
unconquerable Saxon We were glad to
hear this bold and manly avowal, and il was
greeted with deafening plaudts- We have never
seen men more terribly in earnest. and the Dem
ocratic white-line speech made to them by
Colonel Lamar aroused them to q white heat"
And the paper says: IF the killing of anybody
Is necessary we repsat what We have hererofore
said: Let the poor negro pass. and let the white
scoundrels who have fired his heart with evil
passions be the only sufferers Lamar used the
same language at Scooba. in Kemper county,
and Judge Chsoln's name was mentioned the
man who stood in the way of Democratic vic
tory: -Four men were hanged at Chicago
Gently for murders to which they were 10 more
accessory than Lamar this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

WASHINGTON dispatches throw some light
on the interesting study known as Democratic
economy. The Secretary of the Treasury
yesterday transmitted to Congress estimates
to meet deficiencies in government expendi-
lures for the last fiscal year amo uniting to
IS, 580,978, and for the current fiscal year of
IS. 274, aggregating for the two years
$S, 656, 252. This sum represents the defcien-
cies caused by cutting down appropriations
and by other forms of Democratic economy,
and is the difference between promises and
performance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

A REMNANT of the Catawba tribe of Indians
still in existence in South Carolina has been
brought into notice by complaint to the
Governor from the chief that he and his
braves are compelled by local authorities to
work on the public roads as mere common
taxpayers are required to do. 1t is an Indian
characteristic to avoid work, and the Cataw-
bas have had no chance to learn the nobility
of labor from the white men of that region.
It was in Charleston that factory was closed,
lately, because of the proprietors' inability to
find four hundred white men willing to work
in It.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23
A Novel Church Entertainment.
Special TO Boston Herald


The young people connected with the Baptist
Church in Cromwell took novel way of
p,enishing the treasury of their church. On
Thursday evening the young gathered IN
the parlors of the church. where. surrounded by
a bevy of their lady friends, they undertook Ia
piece bedquilt in the old-fashioned way. The
young ladies enjoyed the bungling work of the
young men they sewed and perspired
the quilt. A large crowd paid the admission of
ten cents to see the work so on, and cheered
the workers in their efforts.
On Friday evening there was equally as large
a crowd to see the young ladies wood, for
this is what they agreed to do if the young
would make bedquilt Ten horses were
ranged in a row, and ten pretty maidens. with
their sleeves rolled up grasped the wood saws
and entered upon their JOB of reducing half
cord of four-foot wood to stove size. Each stick
was cut three times, and the young men sang to
the pretty women as they sawed and sawed
Slowly, but surely, the wood-pile was reduced
in size until it lay before the spectators, who
watched the determined efforts of the fair ones.
This example bids fair to be followed by other
churches that desire to replenish their treas
urieS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

REPUBLICANS AND LIQUOR LEGISLATION.
The position of the Republicans of Indiana
on the question of liquor legislation is now
clearly defined. The platform of 1886, fol-
lowed by the bill introduced and passed by
the Republican branch of the last Legis-
lature and this again by the emphatic
utterance of the recent Republican con-
ference, form series of declarations
AID acts that define the position of
the Republicans of Indiana beyond any doubt
AS the latest declaration on the subject we
reprint the resolution adopted at the recent
conference:
1--WE repeat with emphasis the declaration
of the last platform that politics and legisla-
ton shall be freed from every vestige of the
domination and influence of the liquor power
The traffic in intoxicating liquors must and
shall be made obedient to law. We reafirm
the belief that laws should be passed giving
to local communities the right to control the
traffic, and where It exists it should be under
stringent regulations. and tax should be
placed upon it that will relieve the local treas
uries of the extraordinary burdens it imposes
upon the people,"
The Republican press and party leaders of
the State so fully committed to this posi-
ton that it may be regarded as the settled
policy of the party, and certain to be reafirmed
by the next State convention. It is position
that ought to command the hearty support of
every Republican and of every reasonable OPP
ponent of the evils of the liquor traffic. Local
control and a high tax, operating together
furnish all the weapons necessary to expel the
oh
hibition in communities where public opinion
viii enforce it. and to subject the traffic in
other communities to such burdens and disa-
bilities as will greatly diminish its power for
evil. The Missouri law, which has recently
been held constitutional, embraces both of
these principles, and under it many localities
are prohibiting the traffic altogether. Thirty
four out of fifty-one counties have voted in
favor of prohibition, and eleven out of sixteen
incorporated towns that have voted the
subject. The Missouri law places the mini
mum tax or license fee at $3.50, and the max
imum at 81, 200. the County Commissioners
having discretion to fix the amount within
these limits. A saloon in an incorporated
clIy OF toWH requires Two licenses, one lfom
the county for the county and State, and an
other from the municipality for the city In
corporated cities and towns at liberty to
fix the price of license at any figure they
please, or to withhold licenses altogether.
Under this law licenses have varied greatly,
ranging from $3.50 in the rural counties to
even $4,000 in municipalities. The
general effect of the law has been to reduce
the number of saloons in the State, in spite
of the increase of population, and to increase
largely the revenues We believe a law in
Indiana embodying these general principles
and features would do all that is practicable
in reducing the evils of the liquor traffic to
minimum. This is the Republican position
in Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

New 1Ork
The Rev F. T. Jewell, a Methodist clergy
man, of San Jose, Cal. has appealed to all re-
lgious and temperance organizations to file pro-
tests 10 be presented to Senator Stanford, ask
ing him not to endow his university with
money derived from the sale Of wine. IL Mr..
Jewell remains in California, he may at some
will be paid in money partly derived from the
sale of grapes which to be used in the max
ing of wine. Or perhaps in another church his
salary will be largely paid by who supply
the fertilizers or the tools used in vineyards. Or
still again. he may be sent 10 a church in which
men who sells dry goods or groceries TO grape
raisers contribute the money for his salary.
Mr. Jewell is doubtless sincere, but il he is con-
sistent he will have hard time of it In Califor-
ria
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

THAT section of the city bounded by
street on the north, College avenue on the
east, and Park avenue on the west has
recently been infested with one or more
beasts that pass for men. who visit houses
after night and brighten women and accost
and insult school girls on the streets in broad
daylight. So frequent have these acts become
that some action must speedily be taken by
the police authorities to arrest the scoundrels
who are doing these things, the indignant
residents up there will do "a neat job of lynch
ing Some night. The officers have been mott
fed of these outrages, but they have done
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

THE ''prazdnik' is the latest variety of char
ity fair. 1t is imitation of Russian festival
in which all classes participate, and gives the
young who play that they are subjects of the
Gar a chance to appear in picturesque array
either as members of the nobility peasants
The decorations are furs and SKINS gay banners,
armor and various Russian devices. A praZdnik
lately held in New York under the patronage of
the Russian consulate is said to have been
highly successful in its main object of enticing
the reluctant dollar from the pockets of the WIS.,
itorc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-23

Ii the Crown Prince survives the shiftv
treatment and scientific experiments of the
international physicians who are attending
him he will be very fortunate. Their latest
scheme is to ascertain whether his blood con-
tains the proper amount of sugar, and to this
end quantity has been drawn from his neck
to be analysed. After this something else.
But the Prince seems to be recovering in
spite Of everything.